Posts Tagged ‘lost pet tracker’

How often do you place your keys somewhere around and then you have to go looking around all the place to find them as you have forgotten where exactly you have placed the? Some of us often forget important items and then spend a lot of time looking for them just to find out that they were let at the most unexpected place or were right in from of our eyes all the time and we did not see them. Fortunately there are actually quite a lot of different “smart tags” that are designed to be attached to important items such as keys and help you locate them faster and easier. This can even go beyond looking for your keys or bag to things like tracking your pet cat or dog, so that it will not be lost. The important thing however is not to loose your smartphone as you will need it in order to be able to use the tags for finding your lost or misplaced items that have been tagged. Looking around we have found out quite a lot of “smart tag” projects actually on the market with even more coming soon, so we were actually kind of surprised and probably there are even more thatn what our quick search has returned as results. Below you can find some of the more interesting devices that are available or are currently in the works…

Smart tag devices to be available soon:
– Hiro – 3-6 months battery life, user-replaceable, Android and iOS compatible, to be available in February 2015 for $12 USD
– StoneTether – 1 year battery life, user-replaceable, to be available in Aprim 2015 for $25 USD
– Pip – GPS-based pet finder with GSM module, to be available June 2015 for $179 USD